Samsung has launched a campaign to remind arch-rival Apple that it wasn't the first tech firm to release a golden bling-horror phone.
The South Korean giant has gone to the effort of designing a special web page dedicated to showing off the garish champagne-coloured phones it has inflicted on the human population over the years …

Re: /me grabs the popcorn

Re: AC "they made the best one"

A very short time after the original iPod came out I offered my then-SO a relatively cheap MP3 player; not too sure about the brand, I suspect Sony. It was the size of a large-ish USB dongle, with a 1-line LCD and a simple but intuitive interface. It held just over 500MB of music, included a freakin' _radio tuner_ and was a 2-part job: a smallish USB drive that plugged into a larger body. You just detached the USB part and plugged it into any computer to add or remove media files, then plugged it back into the main "body" and there you went. It worked on a single AAA battery, which would power the thing for month (she used to fall asleep with it and only shut it down in the morning. Every single day.). It was friggin' AWESOME (her words). She got herself an iPod nano a few years later, she found it was the lamest thing ever. The controls were fiddly, it did not have radio, adding or removing files was an extremely painful process when it worked at all, andshe had to bring it back to the AppleStore 3 times because she thought the lousy battery life was due to her repeatedly getting a faulty unit before she realized it was "normal". She kept using her good old non-Apple music player until she recently got herself an iPod Touch, which she uses more like a toned-down iPhone (AppleTalk apparently _is_ good). She is what you could call a fangirl (she dipped her toes in the computer world on her father's Apple ][, later got the first-gen iMac, the first-gen MacBook which she still uses, a MackBook Pro, she got a MacBook Air as soon as the larger one was launched, etc...) and yet it still took Apple more than 10 years to release a MP3 player she would consider using over a cheapo USB-Stick-style one.

Re: Yawn

Re: Yawn

I had a pink RAZR as a backup phone back in the day when my main handset (possibly a Nokia 6550, I honestly can't remember as I never had to use it) and it lived in my kitchen drawer. I always had a backup phone somewhere, although oddly, not these days.

Re: I am slightly dumber

For extra amazement, consider that the Samsung marketroid who provoked all this had the excuse that they were paid to write the original copy, which might have gone unnoticed, but (I presume that) none of the outraged responses earned a penny despite their obvious success in bringing it to a wider audience.

Re: I am slightly dumber

I am constantly amazed by the fans who have no clue and defend their brand.

These immature Fanbois are like a herd on the african plains. They have the same basic instinct - they want their own herd to be bigger and bigger, as they seek safety in numbers. It's because they perceive the fandroids to be like circling lions, an aggressor out to hurt them, and therefore they're scared of them. So they stay in their herd and shout at the "lions"

What they may not realise, is that these immature fandroids are like a herd on the african plains. They have the same basic instinct - they want their own herd to be bigger and bigger, as they seek safety in numbers. It's because they perceive the fanbois to be like circling lions, an aggressor out to hurt them, and therefore they're scared of them. So they stay in their herd and shout at the "lions"....

Re: Not unlike real gold

Theoretically a pan with a solid diamond base would the best way to fry an egg. Apparently it is the best known conductor of heat... though of course impractical for most (all?) conducting applications.

I had a few of the later Samsung slider phones (better than their Nokia equivalents at the time) from around 2006, then a couple of their touchscreen efforts (well featured, but some annoying design decisions)... I don't think they ever twice used the same connector for power, data transfer and audio headsets (!). The first one, a very thin slider phone, wasn't bad at all though.